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Tag Archives: Ed Ballard

Truly, madly, but not quite deeply enough: Massenet’s Werther from English Touring Opera

Goethe’s Sorrows of Young Werther pitted religion against Romanticism in a battle royal for the soul of young Germany, which Romanticism won: Werther became a cult hero, even a fashion icon, to generations of Europeans. Oliver Platt’s reduction of Goethe’s aesthetic manifesto to a kitchen sink drama (played throughout in the same shabby kitchen) gives us a…

November 10, 2015 in Opera.

Full of sound and fury: Luke Styles’ Macbeth, Glyndebourne

Glyndebourne’s short opera from Luke Styles sets Macbeth in a modern British army unit deployed, judging by their desert fatigues, somewhere in the Middle East East (so, feel free to pick a conflict from the ever-mounting list of today’s tragedies). The libretto is carved straight from Shakespeare’s original by Ted Huffman, who also directs this…

September 10, 2015 in New writing, Opera.

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